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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Robert W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert W., who was born in Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Poland in 1931, the youngest of six childen. He recalls antisemitic harassment; German invasion; a public hanging; ghettoization; his father arranging for him to hide with non-Jews; returning to rejoin his family; his mother's deportation; being smuggled into the labor camp by his brothers; slave labor; sharing extra food received from a civilian worker with his brothers, father, or sister; his father hiding him when he was sick; his father arranging his escape to the partisans; returning due to antisemitic hostility fro...

  2. Joseph Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph Z., who was born in Vienna in 1918. He describes his childhood and youth, relating instances of antisemitism; the political situation in Austria before the Anschluss; the German occupation of Austria (which forced him to leave medical school); his subsequent training in tailoring and English and work in his father's tailor shop; his emigration to the United States via Paris and London with his parents and two younger sisters; and his service in the American army (he was drafted in 1942) interrogating German prisoners.

  3. Stefan D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stefan D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1934. He recalls Hlinka guards destroying their homes; living in a forest; continuing to attend school; the local population being blamed when partisans blew up a bridge near their village; deportation with his mother to Prešov, then Dubnica, a concentration camp for Romanies; his mother giving birth in the train; separation of the women from the children; seeing his mother an hour a day; crowding and very poor hygiene; sparse food rations leading to high death rates, particularly am...

  4. Hilda F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda F., who was born in Storojinet, Romania (today Storozhinets, Ukraine), in 1920. Mrs. F. describes her childhood in a civil servant's family; rallies by anti-Semitic Romanian political movements; Soviet occupation; killings of Jews by withdrawing Romanians; being sent as a teacher to a small village; returning home; and being rounded up with other Jews by returning Romanian troops in June 1941. She tells of a Christian friend who helped her; being sent with her family to the Storojinet ghetto; arrest and detention as a former "communist" teacher; expulsion of her...

  5. Tzvi A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tzvi A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927, the older of two children. He recounts attending public school; the Nuremberg laws resulting in many restrictions; visiting England for six weeks in 1936 through a Jewish community program; attending Jewish summer camp; transfer to a Jewish school in 1938; Kristallnacht; his sister's emigration on a kindertransport; his bar mitzvah; attending a Zionist training school; working in a factory starting at age fourteen; his grandfather's deportation; hiding during a round-up with assistance from a non-Jewish family; joining...

  6. Martha H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha H., who was born in Vilma?ny, Hungary in 1927. She recalls about fifty Jewish people living there; commuting to a Catholic school in Abau?jsza?nto? at age ten; attending a boarding school in Budapest in 1943; German invasion in March 1944; hearing from home for a short time; forced labor with friends clearing bombing rubble; hiding briefly in a basement; being rounded-up; escaping with her friends; a Jewish agency placing them in a Swedish safe house; disbanding of the house when it became too dangerous; receiving false papers; liberation by Soviet troops; trav...

  7. Ida F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida F., who was born in Zbaraż, Poland (presently Zbaraz︠h︡ , Ukraine) in 1921, the elder of two daughters. She recounts her father's medical practice and her mother teaching gymnasium until her sister's birth; her large extended family; attending public school; her family's focus on music and literature; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending university in Lʹviv in 1938, where she first experienced antisemitism; hiding with her sister during the war resulting in their very close relationship; assistance by Poles; and emigration to Israel when she was thirty-six....

  8. Roger B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roger B., who was born in Nancy, France in 1910. He recalls working as a court lawyer; moving to Paris; mobilization in August 1939; service on the Maginot line; being taken prisoner by Germans in June 1940; internment as a French prisoner of war in several places, including Sarrebourg, Sarralbe, and Trier, which are described in his friend Francis Ambrie?re's book; assisting groups to stay together; receiving extra food from a guard; transfer to Amboise, then Saumur; his parents visiting once; transfer to Sankt Johann im Pongau; organizing plays and giving lectures; ...

  9. Sylvia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia M., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in approximately 1926, one of three sisters. She recounts attending a Jewish school; increasing antisemitism in the late 1930s; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending free public high school; brief Lithuanian independence; an antisemitic riot; Soviet reoccupation in 1940; German invasion in 1941; her father's forced labor; learning her uncle had been killed with many others; ghettoization in September 1941; her older sister smuggling food; transfer to Keilis due to her older sister's privileged posi...

  10. David B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David B., who was born in Floss, Germany in 1910. He relates being orphaned at a young age; his first five years in a happy household of relatives; attending a school for the deaf in Munich (he was not born deaf) from ages five to thirteen; schools in Jena for two years; his older siblings' emigration to Israel and the United States in 1935; training as a porcelain decorator; work as a designer in Floss; loss of his job due to Nazi restrictions; returning to Munich in 1938; Crystal Night; and internment in Dachau. Mr. B. describes camp life; release four weeks later; ...

  11. Zofia D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zofia D., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland, in 1923. Mrs. D. recalls her extended family; living with her aunt and uncle when her family moved to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; receiving anti-Semitic threats as the only Jew in school in Koluszki; a volksdeutsche girlfriend who later joined the Gestapo; German occupation; angering police by trying to conceal her yellow star; buying her uncle out of a Gestapo jail; and joining her parents in Tomaszo?w. She relates ghetto conditions; execution of the Judenrat head and his sons (one of whom was her boyfriend); escape with her aunt...

  12. Aleksandr O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksandr O., who was born in Kopaygorod, Ukraine in 1933. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; a family chuppah; celebrating holidays at home; German invasion in 1941; his father being beaten and forced to work; administration by Romanians; ghettoization; Ukrainian women trading food for their possessions at the fence; arrival of Romanian Jews from other cities; frequent deportations; hiding his grandmother in their basement (she died there in 1942); starvation; a typhus epidemic; becoming more hopeful after the Soviet victory at Stalingrad; liberation by Soviet troops...

  13. Sigi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sigi Z., who was born in Kassel, Germany, in 1928. Mr. Z. tells of his Polish family's isolation from German life; resentment of local German Jews toward Poles; expulsion from Germany in 1939; Poland's refusal of entry; his father's departure for London (they could not obtain visas for the family); and transport with his mother, brother and 1,000 others to Ri?ga in December 1941. He recalls conditions in the Ri?ga ghetto; massacres of Latvian Jews; forced labor in a fish processing plant; smuggling food; witnessing executions; transfer to Kaiserwald in April 1942; rej...

  14. Simon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon R., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1916 to an orthodox family of six children. He recalls his family moving between Ozorko?w and ?owicz; working from age ten; disbelief that anything bad would occur; opening a store near Ozorko?w in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Ozorko?w; learning the Gestapo was looking for him; hiding in a village; returning to Ozorko?w; and three months in jail in ?e?czyca. Mr. R. tells of his return to Ozorko?w; his brother's arrest; ghettoization; forced labor; the community saving a boy from public hanging for not wearing the yell...

  15. Leon K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon K., who was born in a small town in Bosnia in 1907 to a family of nine children. He recalls his father's death; attending business college; a government job; marriage in Travnik on the day of the German invasion in 1941; working in Tuzla; moving to Travnik; hiding for three months to avoid deportation; reaching Italian-occupied Mostar with help from a Muslim; his wife joining him in January 1942; and fleeing to the mountains. He recounts living with partisans; moving to Kotor; transfer to Vieste, then Bari, Italy; emigration to the United States in 1943; living i...

  16. Samuel and Wolf Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel and Wolf Z., twins, who were born in Chmielnik, Poland in 1923. They recall cruelty they encountered as children; German invasion; forced labor with their older brother until 1942; their transfer to Koszyce, then the HASAG plant in Kielce; Wolf Z.'s transfer to P?aszo?w where Amon Goeth killed people daily; Samuel Z. witnessing a mass killing of Poles in Kielce; their three year separation; and reunion in Italy. Samuel discusses German people being forced to view Buchenwald after liberation; his sense that Americans viewed Buchenwald as if it were a tourist att...

  17. Bruce T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bruce T., who was born in L?vov, Poland in 1914. He speaks of prewar family and community life; the Russian occupation in 1939, followed by the German occupation; and the formation of the L?vov ghetto in the fall of 1942. He recalls Polish antisemitism and aid to the Nazis in hunting Jews; his activities with a resistance group based in Skole, on the Hungarian-Polish border; his capture and incarceration in Munkacs; and his transfer to Budapest as an alleged spy. Mr. T. relates his escape from Budapest, joining the Hungarian underground as a tactician; his attempts to...

  18. Salomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salomon R., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1925, one of three children of Polish émigrés. He recounts his father's death in 1933; attending public school and weekly Yiddish lessons; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemitism by right-wing extremists; housing German-Jewish refugees; German invasion in May 1940; registering as Jews when required to do so; recruitment by his brother-in-law to the Resistance at age fifteen; obtaining false papers; assignments delivering underground newspapers and smuggling people to northern France via Kortrijk (C...

  19. Leopold Z. Holocaust Testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leopold Z., who was born in Bautzen, Germany, in 1922 and moved to Breslau as a child. Mr. Z. describes his childhood and religious education; the beginning of the war and his family's fatally passive reaction; forced labor in a factory near Breslau; and the deportation of his entire family, except himself and one of his four brothers, to a town near Lublin. He tells of being taken in by an orphanage, where he and his brother were given false French papers; their betrayal and subsequent arrest; and their year-long imprisonment while awaiting trial for treason. Mr. Z. ...

  20. Gerhard C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerhard C., who was born in Fraustadt, Germany (presently Wschowa, Poland) in 1920, an only child. He recalls attending gymnasium; expulsion due to antisemitic restrictions; antisemitic violence; his father's imprisonment and transfer to Berlin; moving there with his mother; his father's release; attending school; working for a sign company; his father's reluctance to emigrate thinking his status as a decorated war veteran offered protection; deportation with his parents to the ?o?dz? ghetto in 1941; transfer three days later to Poznan (he never saw his parents again)...